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What is a sandgrouse, and where does it live? What are the medical properties of lignum vitae, and how did Stephen Maturin use it to repair his viola? Who is Adm. Lord Keith, and why is his wife so friendly with Capt. Jack Aubrey? More than any other contemporary author, Patrick O’Brian knew the past. His twenty Aubrey–Maturin novels, beginning with Master and Commander (1969), are distinguished by deep characterization, heart-stopping naval combat, and an attention to detail that enriches and enlivens his stories. In the revised edition of A Sea of Words, Dean King and his collaborators dive into Jack Aubrey’s world.
In the revised edition of Harbors and High Seas, King details not just where Aubrey and Maturin went, but how they got there. Packed with maps and illustrations from the greatest age of sail, it is an incomparable reference for devotees of O’Brian’s novels and anyone who has dreamed of climbing aboard a warship, as well as a captivating portrait of life on the sea during a time when nothing stood between man and ocean but grit, daring, and a few creaking planks of wood.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British navy was the mightiest instrument of war the world had ever known. The Royal Navy patrolled the seas from India to the Caribbean, connecting an empire with footholds in every corner of the earth. Such a massive navy required the service of more than 100,000 men—from officers to deckhands to surgeons. Their stories are collected in Every Man Will Do His Duty. The inspiration for the bestselling novels of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester, these twenty-two memoirs and diaries, edited by Dean King, provide a true portrait of life aboard British warships during one of the most significant eras of world history.
Patrick O’Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Capt. Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography. King traces O’Brian’s personal history from his beginnings as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey–Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O’Brian’s imagination. Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed is a penetrating and insightful examination of one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists.
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| Publisher: | Open Road Media |
| Publication date: | 06/28/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
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About the Author
Dean King is an award-winning and bestselling author of narrative nonfiction and other works on historical and maritime adventure, including A Sea of Words (1995), Harbors and High Seas (1996), and Every Man Will Do His Duty (1997), all companion works to Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturinnovels. A foremost expert on O’Brian, King also published a biography of the acclaimed author, entitled Patrick O’Brian: A Life Revealed (2000). Most recently, King has published the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara (2004), about twelve shipwrecked American sailors’ hellish journey across the Sahara Desert, and Unbound (2010), about the women who embarked on Mao’s Long March in 1934. King’s writing has also appeared inGranta, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Men’s Journal, Outside,andthe New York Times.
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The World of Patrick O'Brian
A Sea of Words, A Life Revealed, Harbors and High Seas, and Every Man Will Do His Duty
By Dean King
OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA
Copyright © 2001 Dean KingAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5040-3897-3
CHAPTER 1
The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War
John B. Hattendorf
When a sailor was swimming on the surface of the open ocean, his horizon was a mere 1.1 miles away. But climbing to the maintop — about 100 feet above the water on a 74-gun ship — extended the distance he could see to nearly 12 miles. The height of any object on the horizon, whether ship or shore, also increased that distance. Perched in the rigging of a large ship, a lookout might see the sails of another large ship at 20 miles, even if the ship was hull-down (with only its sails visible above the horizon).
Height was the key. Yet a person's range of view could be affected by many circumstances, such as fog or even loud distractions on deck. At long distances, the atmosphere could create strange refractions, causing mirages.
For a naval man, there is a direct analogy between climbing the mast to extend the horizon at sea and climbing up the hierarchy of command to view the wider operations of the Navy. The top of the Royal Navy hierarchy was not in a ship at sea, but ashore, in London. It was only from there that one's vision was global, encompassing the Navy's numerous theaters of operation and distant exploits. And it was from there that the Navy's basic directions emanated — everything from grand strategy to pay from ship construction to uniforms, from navigation charts to food allowances. Officers of the Crown, including naval officers like Jack Aubrey, were ultimately governed by Parliament, the King's Cabinet, and the King himself.
King, Cabinet, and Parliament
For all those who served in the Navy, King George III stood at the pinnacle of command. Not only was the King a symbol of sovereignty, but he also played a tangible role in day-to-day affairs. Maintaining the prerogative of the Crown to appoint its own ministers, George III was an important influence on national policies and was certainly able to prevent the government from taking measures in which he did not acquiesce. Although after his first bout with insanity in 1788, George III began to leave an increasing amount of business to his ministers, he retained considerable influence over national policy and ministerial appointments throughout the years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
In the King's name and through his authority, the prime minister and the other ministers in the Cabinet collectively exercised the executive power of government through the means provided by Parliament. In this, the Cabinet was controlled on one side by the King and on the other by Parliament. When a cabinet was appointed and received the King's support, it could normally expect the support of a majority in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords as well as a victory in the next general election, providing that it did not prove incompetent, impose undue taxation, or fail to maintain public confidence. When any of these were joined by public outcry over a defeat in battle or disappointment in foreign policies, Cabinet ministers were clearly in political danger.
Because of its representative nature and its exclusive ability to initiate financial measures, the House of Commons was the stronger of the two Houses of Parliament, but the House of Lords, usually siding with the King, retained enormous power. Its assent was essential to the passage of any law. In the 18th century, when most Cabinet ministers, including the head of the Navy, were Lords, it was normal for the Cabinet's views to be more in harmony with those of the House of Lords. Together, the two could kill inconvenient measures arising in the Commons.
The Cabinet dealt with questions of broad naval policy and strategy, including finance, ship construction, and logistical support, obtaining funding from Parliament and sometimes even giving broad operational directives to the Admiralty and to senior naval commanders.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Traditionally, the Crown vested the powers and functions of the Admiralty in the office of Lord High Admiral. An ancient office of state, it had not been held by an individual since 1709. Instead, these powers were delegated to a board of seven men who were the "Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral," or "Admiralty Board." Of these seven, three were usually naval officers, called professional Lords, and four civilians, or civil Lords. In theory, each commissioner was equal in authority and responsibility, but in practice the person whose name appeared first on the document commissioning the board was the senior member, or First Lord. During this period, the First Lord was more often a civilian member of the House of Lords than a naval officer.
In 1805, Lord Barham was the first to assign specific duties to each of the professional Naval Lords, leaving the civil Lords to handle routine business and sign documents. Under the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the senior official was the First Secretary of the Admiralty. Usually an elected member of the House of Commons, he was the senior civil servant. More often than not, it was the First Secretary who communicated the decisions of the Commissioners to naval officers in the fleet, although from 1783, a Second Secretary assisted in carrying out the administrative burdens of the office.
The Admiralty Office
The heart of the Admiralty was the Admiralty Office on the west side of Whitehall. It was a neighbor of the War Office, which administered the Army at a building called the Horse Guards, both overlooking St. James's Park to the rear. In this location, the Admiralty was close to the nerve centers of national power: 10 Downing Street (the Prime Minister's residence), the Treasury, the Houses of Parliament, St. James's Palace, and the residence of George III.
Designed by Thomas Ripley, the Master Carpenter to the Crown, the Admiralty Office was built between 1725 and 1728 to replace one that had stood on the same site. Masked from the unruly mob on the street by a stone screen added in 1760, the brick building's tall portico and small courtyard were often filled with arriving or departing naval officers and chastened messengers bringing news from the fleet.
It was a place where naval officers' careers were made or lost. As O'Brian describes a visit by Jack Aubrey to seek a commission from Lord Melville in Post Captain, that tension is palpable: "The plunge into the Admiralty courtyard; the waiting room, with half a dozen acquaintances — disconnected gossip, his mind and theirs being elsewhere; the staircase to the First Lord's room and there, half-way up, a fat officer leaning against the rail, silent weeping, his slab, pale cheeks all wet with tears. A silent marine watched him from the landing, two porters from the hall, aghast."
The Admiralty Office's oak-paneled boardroom was the site of the Admiralty Commissioners' daily meetings. Saved from the earlier building, a working wind-direction indicator mounted on the wall over the fireplace served as a constant reminder of the fleets at sea, while charts covering the walls kept the Commissioners abreast of the various theaters of action. Together, the Commissioners deliberated at a long table, preparing the fleet for war, selecting its commanders, and making officer assignments. While the Board itself did not make strategic decisions, the First Lord was involved in this process as a member of the Cabinet, and the Admiralty Secretary often forwarded the Cabinet's instructions on strategy and fleet operations to the fleet commanders.
The Admiralty managed a wide range of other administrative and judicial duties as well. For this, the First Secretary of the Admiralty supervised a bustling office with many clerks, visitors, and activities, making it a prime target for spies; indeed, security leaks were a problem.
On the other hand, the Admiralty itself had need of foreign intelligence, which Admiralty officials obtained in several ways. Some of it came from the ordinary sources of government intelligence: Post Office officials in London and Hanover who opened foreign letters and diplomatic agents and colonial officials abroad who forwarded information to the secretaries of state, who in turn forwarded it to the Admiralty. The Admiralty's own sources included the reports of officers abroad, who supplemented their observations with information from merchant seamen and others in the ports they visited. Additionally, the First Lords often privately employed spies to make secret reports. When Lord Spencer became First Lord in 1794, one of his first observations about the Admiralty was the need to assign a clerk the specific responsibility of coordinating the different sources of foreign intelligence.
In 1786, the growing Admiralty bureaucracy expanded into a new yellow brick building joined to the Admiralty on the south. Here on the ground floor were three large state rooms for the First Lord's official entertaining. Above that, two floors housed mainly the private apartments of the First Lord but also the Admiralty Library.
The Admiralty was not the only office that managed naval affairs. There were a variety of other boards and offices in London that dealt with specific aspects of the Navy. The most important of these was the Navy Board.
The Navy Board
The Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, who formed the Navy Board, worked in the Navy Office building at Somerset House in the Strand. They were concerned with three main areas: (1) the material condition of the fleet, including building, fitting out, and repairing ships, managing dockyards, purchasing naval stores, and leasing transport vessels; (2) naval expenditure, including the payment of all salaries and auditing accounts; and (3) the health and subsistence of seamen. The last function was delegated to subsidiary boards, also located at Somerset House:
• The Sick and Wounded Board, or the Commissioners for taking care of Sick and Wounded Seamen and for the Exchanging of Prisoners of War.
• The Commissioners of the Victualling, who were responsible for acquiring, storing, and delivering food supplies to the fleet.
• The Transport Board, which hired merchant vessels to carry troops and supplies, took over from the Sick and Wounded Board the responsibility for prisoners of war in 1796. The two boards merged in 1806. Originally composed of three senior naval officers, the Transport Board also included a civil administrator and a physician after 1806.
The Ordnance Board
An entirely independent board at the Ordnance Office with locations both at the Tower of London and at the Warren, next to Woolwich Dockyard down the Thames from London, the Ordnance Board was responsible for supplying both the Army and the Navy with guns and ammunition. Headed by the Master-General of the Ordnance, this board contracted with private foundries to make cannon; supervised gunpowder plants at Faversham and Waltham Abbey; managed the arsenal at Woolwich, where guns were received, tested, and issued; and appointed and supplied gunners to ships. The Ordnance Board worked closely with the Admiralty, its principal channel of communication on sea affairs, in determining with the Navy Board and its subsidiaries the specifications of armaments for naval vessels and in coordinating the timely delivery and convoy of supplies as well as the construction and victualing of Ordnance vessels.
The Size of the Navy
Together, these offices and boards managed the support and direction of a large number of officers, seamen, and ships. Today, as then, it is difficult to ascertain exactly how many men were in the Navy. Parliament authorized a certain number in its annual vote, a certain number were assigned to vessels, and then there were actual musters, where the men on board each ship were counted. These muster counts varied from month to month and often were not completely kept or fully compiled for the Navy as a whole. The following figures, however, give an approximation (no figures are available for 1814 and 1815).
Ships and Tactics
The Navy of this period was made up of a wide variety of ships with specific roles to play. Some were designed for combat, others for support activities. The most important combat vessels were those designed to fight an organized enemy fleet in a line of battle; they were called line-of-battle ships or ships of the line.
Battle Tactics. Navies had developed the line of battle in the 17th century. Simply described, it involved sailing ships in a line, bow to stern, as the most efficient way of concentrating their gunfire, at the same time protecting the ships' weakest points. The bow and stern were the least protected parts of the ship, carrying only a few guns, and volleys received there could damage the ships' weakest structural points if aimed low at the rudder, stern, or bow, or, if aimed high, could travel the whole length of the deck, killing men and wreaking havoc with the sails and rigging.
It was these factors that made the tactic known as "crossing the T" so effective. In this maneuver, one battle line passed, at a 90° angle, ahead of the opposing battle line, each ship firing its broadsides at the enemy ships' bows and masts and along their decks. This maneuver was not an easy one to undertake because the approaching ships were themselves vulnerable to heavy gunfire. It helped to have the weather gauge, that is to say, to be to windward of the opposing fleet, because that allowed the swiftest approach and the advantage of choosing when to initiate the engagement. But one could not always dictate one's position when encountering an enemy, or, for that matter, predict wind shifts. In general, however, while the British preferred the weather gauge, the French more often preferred the lee, because they tended to concentrate on reaching a destination to get troops or to convoy merchant ships rather than on seeking battle.
There were some other significant national differences in naval gunnery. Most prominent among them, perhaps, was the fact that in general the French fired at the masts, rigging, and sails of British ships, aiming to disable the enemy's motive power, while the British usually fired on the French warships' hulls. It was far more difficult to hit the hull of an enemy ship, but piercing the hull often created the heaviest damage, possibly sinking the ship.
Most battles took place at relatively close range. They often didn't begin until the ships were as close as 1,000 yards, and sometimes this distance was reduced to 500 yards when the guns were double-shotted (firing two rounds at once). Closer ranges were termed "musket shot range" (within 300 yards) and "pistol shot range" (within 50 yards).
Sometimes, ships of the line were engaged in blockade operations, designed either to keep the enemy's ships in port or, alternatively, to draw them out to fight. There were two types of blockades: close and open. An open blockade, usually by smaller ships of the line off an enemy port, such as Toulon in the Mediterranean or Brest in northwestern France, gave the impression that the port was not carefully watched or that there was a chance of battle success for the enemy. At the first sign the enemy fleet gave of moving out of port, a fast ship was sent to bring up the blockader's battle fleet to engage them.
A close blockade with ships of the line, such as the one Nelson conducted off Cadiz in July 1797, was difficult, dangerous, and tedious work for the blockaders. Such a blockade was meant to keep an enemy fleet at anchor in port. Jack Aubrey was typical of many officers who expressed their displeasure in such work. Not only did it lack the élan of battle, but it was difficult to control a large line of battle in shallow and confined waters close to shore.
Rated Ships of the Line. Broadly speaking, the ships of the line were also the rated ships, falling into five or six classes. All of them were normally commanded by a sea officer trained in navigation, seamanship, and gunnery and holding the official rank and title of Captain, that is to say, a Post-Captain. There were gradations of seniority among these men, depending upon their length of service and experience, but all were Post-Captains.
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Table of Contents
- Cover
- A Sea of Words
- Title Page
- A Note on the Third Edition
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the Second Edition by Dean King
- Foreword by Dean King
- The Royal Navy During the War of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War by John B. Hattendorf
- King, Cabinet, and Parliament
- The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
- The Admiralty Office
- The Navy Board
- The Ordnance Board
- The Size of the Navy
- Ships and Tactics
- The Royal Dockyards and Ropeyards
- Sea Officers: Commissioned and Warrant
- Daily Life on a Warship
- An Overview of the War of the French Revolution
- The War of the First Coalition, 1793–1798
- The War of the Second Coalition, 1799–1801
- The Peace of Amiens, 1802–1803
- An Overview of the Napoleonic War
- The War of the Third Coalition, 1805
- The Fourth Coalition, 1806–1807, and the Naval War After Trafalgar
- The Fifth Coalition, 1809
- The Peninsular War, 1807–1814
- The War of 1812, 1812–1815
- The War of the Sixth Coalition, 1812–1814
- The War of the Seventh Coalition, 1815
- Stephen Maturin and Naval Medicine in the Age of Sail by J. Worth Estes
- Doctors and the Royal Navy
- Serving at Sea
- Serving on Board Hospital Ships or at Hospitals
- The Disease Burden of the Royal Navy
- The Medicine Chest
- Trauma and Surgery
- What Good Could Dr. Maturin’s Medicine Do?
- Maps, Types of Sailing Ships, Ship Diagrams, and a Warship’s Boats
- The Alphabetical Lexicon to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels, with Biographies of Historical Figures, Battle Accounts, and Foreign Words and Phrases
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- Appendix: A Time Line of the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Fight for Independence in Chile
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Patrick O'Brian
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Author’s Note to the Paperback Edition
- 2. Prologue: London, July 1945
- Part I: Green
- 1. A Top Hat, a Clean Collar, and Clean Boots, 1850–1900
- 2. Walden, 1914–1922
- 3. The Pen Mightier than the Pain, 1923–1930
- Part II: Red
- 4. Beasts Royal, 1930–1934
- 5. Catching Lightning in a Jar, 1934–1939
- 6. Blood, Sweat, Toil, and Tears, 1940–1943
- 7. An Irishman Is Born, 1943–1946
- Part III: Slate
- 8. The Last Approach to the Mansion of Pluto, 1946–1947
- 9. Moelwyn Bank, 1948–1949
- Part IV: Azure
- 10. The Last Stronghold of Poets and Painters, 1949–1953
- 11. The Catalans, 1953–1955
- 12. Voyaging with Commodore Anson, 1955–1959
- 13. Temple and Beauvoir, 1960–1966
- 14. Master and Commander, 1967–1969
- 15. An Epic Is Launched, 1970–1973
- 16. Becoming Picasso, 1973–1976
- Part V: Deep Blue
- 17. At Sea Again, 1976–1978
- 18. Writing with Stunsails Aloft and Alow, 1978–1984
- 19. Singing of Sir Joseph, 1985–1986
- 20. Sailing in the Trade Winds, 1987–1990
- Part VI: Gold
- 21. The Best Writer You Never Heard Of? 1990–1992
- 22. The Wages of Fame, 1993–1994
- 23. The Commodore’s Second Triumphal Tour, 1995–1996
- 24. A Night of Honor, October 11, 1996
- Epilogue
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Harbors and High Seas
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Foreword by Dean King
- Introduction
- Not a Moment to Lose by John B. Hattendorf
- MAP: Neat Diagram of the Winds: January to June
- MAP: Neat Diagram of the Winds: July to December
- MAP: Colonies and Trade Routes in 1814
- Maps of England, Ireland, and Europe
- MAP: England and Wales in 1812
- MAP: Southern England
- MAP: Ireland in 1812
- MAP: London in 1812
- MAP: Whitehall in 1812
- MAP: Europe in 1812
- Map Key
- Chapter 1. Master and Commander: Mastering the Mediterranean
- Algeciras Bay
- Gibraltar
- MAP: Highlights of the Sophie's Lucky Cruise
- Minorca
- Port Mahon
- Strait of Gibraltar (the Gut)
- Chapter 2. Post Captain: England, the Continent, and a North Atlantic Showdown
- MAP: "Can He Dance, Mate?"
- MAP: Two Battles with the Bellone
- Bath
- Bay of Biscay
- Cadiz
- Chatham
- The Downs, North and South
- English Channel or the Channel
- Goodwin Sands
- The Liberties of the Savoy
- The Nore
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Saint-Valéry
- Sussex
- Toulon Wapping Dock
- Chapter 3. HMS Surprise: A Lively Time in the Med and a Surprise Voyage to the East Indies
- MAP: A Fool's Errand and Borneo Rubies
- Bombay
- Calcutta
- Canary Islands
- Gulf of Giens
- India
- Madeira
- Norman Cross
- St. Paul's Rocks
- Tenerife
- Chapter 4. The Mauritius Command: Action in the Indian Ocean
- MAP: A Voyage to the Indian Ocean
- Ashgrove Cottage
- MAP: Warm Work in Shallow Waters
- Cape of Good Hope
- Dry Salvages
- Eight Degree Channel
- Mauritius
- The Solent
- Ten Degree Channel
- Chapter 5. Desolation Island: From Hot Water in Hampshire to Shattering South Seas
- Cape Finisterre
- Cape Verde Islands
- MAP: Dueling Ships in the Lower Forties
- Kerguelen Island
- Recife
- Chapter 6. The Fortune of War: An Unlucky Voyage from the East Indies
- MAP: Fire, Sun, Lead, and Lunatics
- Cape Town
- Dutch East Indies
- MAP: A Challenge of Honor Accepted
- Spice Islands
- Chapter 7. The Surgeon's Mate: From North America to the Baltic to the Tower in the Temple
- MAP: Home in a Hell-Fire Hurry
- MAP: A Diplomatic Mission in Northern Waters
- Baltic Sea
- Brest
- Elsinore or Helsingør
- Gothenburg or Göteborg
- Halifax
- North Sea
- Sable Island
- Chapter 8. The Ionian Mission: Toil and Trouble in the Mediterranean
- MAP: One Bey at a Time
- Barbary States
- Cape St. Vincent
- Constantinople
- Ile de Groix
- Ionian Isles
- Lorient
- Palermo
- Chapter 9. Treason's Harbour: Fiasco in the Middle East
- MAP: Shark-Infested Waters
- Adriatic Sea
- Malta
- Mascara
- Pelusium
- Red Sea
- Suez
- Chapter 10. The Far Side of the World: Around the Horn in a Hurry
- MAP: In Pursuit of the Norfolk
- Cape Horn
- Galapagos Islands
- Marquesas Islands
- São Francisco River
- Tierra del Fuego
- Valparaiso
- Chapter 11. The Reverse of the Medal: Homeward Bound from the West Indies
- Azores
- MAP: Three Spartans
- Barbados
- The City
- The Inns of Court
- Sargasso Sea
- The Temple
- Temple Bar
- Chapter 12. The Letter of Marque: Redemption in the Azores and on the Normandy Coast
- MAP: Action in the Azores
- Riga
- Shelmerston
- Spanish Main
- Woolcombe House
- Chapter 13. The Thirteen Gun Salute: False Starts and the East Indies
- MAP: An Unexpected Round-trip
- MAP: Destination Pulo Prabang
- Batavia
- Corunna or La Coruña
- Java
- Sunda Strait
- Tristan da Cunha
- Chapter 14. The Nutmeg of Consolation: From the Java Sea to Sydney Cove
- MAP: Cracking on Like Smoke and Oakum
- Antipodes
- Java Sea
- MAP: A Blue-Water Sail to Sydney Cove
- New South Wales
- Port Jackson
- Sulu Archipelago
- Sydney Cove
- Chapter 15. The Truelove: An Urgent Detour to the Not-So-Pacific Island of Moahu
- MAP: A South Pacific Detour
- Annamooka Island
- Christmas Island
- Easter Island
- Nootka Sound
- Norfolk Island
- Tahiti
- Chapter 16. The Wine-Dark Sea: South America at Last
- Callao
- Chile
- MAP: Nature's Broadside
- MAP: Maturin's Revolutionary Excursion
- Cuzco
- Diego Ramirez
- MAP: The Pride Which Goeth Before Destruction
- Hull
- Potosi
- Chapter 17. The Commodore: Great Guns on the Coasts of Africa and Ireland
- MAP: A Great Roaring Din on the Slave Coast
- MAP: Nabbing the French Near Bantry Bay
- Ascension Island
- Bere Haven
- Cape Coast Castle
- County Cork
- The Downs
- Freetown
- North Foreland
- Sierra Leone
- South Foreland
- Temple Stairs
- Whydah or Ouidah
- Chapter 18. The Yellow Admiral: Rough Seas on the Brest Blockade
- MAP: Woolcombe House and Environs (and Diana's Route to Tor Bay)
- MAP: On the "Siberia" Blockade
- Brest
- Brittany or Bretagne
- Ushant or Ile d'Ouessant
- Chapter 19. The Hundred Days: Confusion to Boney, Encore!
- MAP: Trimming Boney's Sails in the Med
- Alboran
- Algiers
- Bocche di (or Gulf of) Cattaro
- Castelnuovo
- Cattaro
- Durazzo
- Lake Scutari
- Lesina
- Ragusa
- Ragusa Vecchio
- Chapter 20. Blue at the Mizzen: A Hot Time in Chile
- MAP: Waterloo, June 18, 1815
- MAP: A Broadside for Freedom
- Atacama Desert
- Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins (or Cape Virjenes)
- Chile
- Chiloé Archipelago
- Chonos Archipelago
- Golconda
- Magellan's Strait
- Tullyallan
- Maritime Measures
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Acknowledgments
- Every Man Will Do His Duty
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by John B. Hattendorf
- Introduction
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- List of Maps and Charts
- Part I. The War of the French Revolution
- 1. In the King’s Service, 1793–1794
- 2. Commence the Work of Destruction: The Glorious First of June, 1794
- 3. The Noted Pimp of Lisbon and an Unwanted Promotion in Bull Bay, 1794
- 4. For the Good of My Own Soul, 1795
- 5. They Would as Soon Have Faced the Devil Himself as Nelson, 1796
- 6. The Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 1797
- 7. Mad Dickey’s Amusement, 1798–1800
- 8. The Fortune of War, 1799
- 9. The Audacious Cruise of the Speedy, 1800–1801
- Part II. Peace
- 10. Bermuda in the Peace, 1802–1803
- Part III. The Napoleonic War
- 11. The Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
- 12. The Death of Lord Nelson, 1805
- 13. An Unequal Match, 1807–1808
- 14. With Stopford in the Basque Roads, 1808–1809
- 15. When I Beheld These Men Spring from the Ground, 1809
- 16. “Damn ’em, Jackson, They’ve Spoilt My Dancing,” 1809–1812
- 17. The Woodwind Is Mightier than the Sword, 1809–1812
- 18. HMS Macedonian vs. USS United States, 1812
- 19. An Unjustifiable and Outrageous Pursuit, 1812–1813
- 20. A Yankee Cruiser in the South Pacific, 1813
- 21. Showdown at Valparaiso, 1814
- 22. We Discussed a Bottle of Chateau Margot Together, 1812–1815
- Notes on the Texts
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- About the Author
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